LOCAL HIGH schools did well in the US News & World Report ranking (OC Tribune photo).

Public high schools in our West Orange County area received a report card this week from U.S. News & World Report and most did pretty well.

The magazine annually ranks high schools across the country based on several factors with graduation rates and college readiness among the most prominent. Schools are ranked both by state and the nation.

La Quinta High School, located in Westminster and part of the Garden Grove Unified School District, was rated 88th in California and 674th in the U.S. with a 93 percent graduation rate and a score of 53.1 in college readiness.

Garden Grove High, also part of the GGUSD, scored 134th in the state and 1070th in the nation.  Bolsa Grande (GGUSD) High is 156th in California and 1,176th in the U.S.

Westminster High (Huntington Beach Union High School District is 198th in the state and 1,454 nationally. Marina High (HBUHSD) is 242th in the state and 1,719th in the country.

The GGUSD did especially well, with all seven of its comprehensive high schools scoring higher than 75 percent of the high schools ranked both in California and the United States.

Among all Orange County schools, the top ranked are Oxford Academy in Cypress and Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana.

The Tribune’s coverage area is for schools that serve the communities of Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Stanton and Westminster.